The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-03-17
The First Number of the Retina.

at New Bolony was received yesterday.
We felt glad to hear that you had got
located in n business for yourself, and
it made me feel proud to get copy of
the paper which you call the Rctina.
l do not know why you call il the
Retina. Still, the Bolony Retina
sounds kind of fulsomc and didactic.
Retina l always supposed was a
kind of medical term, and l would
just be fool enough, il / started paper,
TO call it the Sciatica or the Polypus at
Work. It's wonderful how people run
to new names these days. and plain
man with q common. school education
has to 20 cropping along through the
world the best he can. presume that,
with your thorough and horid cduca-
ton, such word as Retina don't
stump you for u minute, but with me
it's different. / am n rough, hard.
working man, and always been busy
all my life. One of the neighbors
asked me night before last, why ]
hadn't ever joined the Knights of
Labor, and / told him that I'd always
been too busy.
! like the tone OF your editorial piece
on the inside of your paper, which is
entitled Salutatory. | like it where it
goes on to say as follows:
I'VE shall strive in season and out of
season, to advocate the resources and
liabilities of New Bolony as health re-
sort and county seat. Our voice will
even be heard in clarion tones, putting
its shoulders to the wheel of progress
and tramping on oppression with both
feet.
I'VE shall send the Retina to every
quarter of the globe, so that New
Bolony, with its wealth of picturesque
valley, hill and dale, together with its
new court house and health-giving at
mosphere, will be known OF wherever
the English language is spoken.
at $ true that the editor of this pa
per has just emerged from college, and
is still young. but he has had some eX-
perence in writing for a college paper,
and he knows what the needs and
wants of the whole people are. lie is
aware that the class of readers who
VIII peruSe the BetiRG, will not be so
refined or cultivated, perhaps, as his
college readers were, but he will try
to make himself understood, and we
think he will be successful.
1--WE shall constantly improve the
RetinG rs growing business and patron
age may warrant, so that in II few
years our readers will look back on
this first copy with ilI-conccaled m nth.
We are already figuring on dark blue
job press and Il rubber door-mat for
the Office, bearing the legend 'Wecome
IN large, Gothic, extended letters.
1--WE shall cspouse the cause of no
party or faction for the present, pre-
fcrring to remain neutral for the time
being, hopping on to the erroneous,
ever and anon. however, rs crcum-
stances may arise, VIII oh will seem to
call on us for n word of reproof, adj
monitor or encouragement. We shall
not make any boasts or fill the air With
bomb ast at this time, but when hydra
headed wrong energies from its hole,
the casual observer will see us knock
seventeen distinct varieties of tar out of
said hydra-headed wrong, and those
who carefully observe our course while
conducting the Retina, will notice that
there are no flies on il.
with regard TO prohibition we shall
be outspoken at all times As for our
self, we can use prohib ton or we can
let il alone. For the present we pre-
fer to touch not, taste not. handle not
the unclepn thing. We favor high
license with low retail prices. This
gradually busts up the dealer and lin
ally wipes tins curse from the face of
the earth with the bosom of statutory
wrath. Besoms of statutory wrath care
fully printed ut this Office on short
notice.
"In closing we will state that the
Rciiid starts out with liberal patron
age, and has come TO stay. We use
this last term with the permission of
the man who made it.
I'VE expect our new navy-blue job.
Der in few weeks and the little boys
in town who wish TO see how a news
paper is made. and who would like TO
contribute n thumb or two out of their
little collection. may come out and
monkey with the new press at any
time. We will return their thumbs to
them Mt the end of the week"
like the tone of this piece as gen.
eral thing, though ! am sorry TO hear
you allude to your liberal patronage,
and by the same mail get request for
more funds. ! will send YOU what mon
ey can spare, hoping that you will
soon get on your feet again.
suppose you will be running for
congress the next thing, and then you
win forget all about your old father,